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CheriABI: enforcing valid pointer provenance and minimizing pointer privilege in the POSIX C run-time environment

The Morning Paper

CheriABI: enforcing valid pointer provenance and minimizing pointer privilege in the POSIX C run-time environment Davis et al., Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). code is not given access to excessive capabilities.

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Segmentation Fault – A DBA Perspective

Percona

In order to understand “segmentation fault,” it is a must to know the basic idea of segmentation and its implementation in C programming. Here, memory is divided into equal sizes of partitions where the code of a program resides. ” Below is a line of code that results in a segmentation fault on PostgreSQL 13.4

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. Talking through the map, we start with an end user who can choose a web app or a mobile app.

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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) Up to 20% higher compute performance than z1d instances Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) We can also verify these capabilities by running some simple benchmarks on the different subsystems.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober

Smashing Magazine

Conventional computers now sport touchscreens and otherwise blur the lines between device types – and between mobile and desktop operating systems. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. If you are in the C-suite, do yourself a favor and read.

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12 different types of mobile testing with real-life examples

Testsigma

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

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